In this episode I speak with performance scholar Martina Ruhsam about the thematisation of non-human entities in contemporary dance, how human beings can already be considered as cyborgs and how, sometimes, virtual presence can be experienced as more intimate than a physical encounter.

dis[ ]tanz

dis[ ]tanz podcast - Martina Ruhsam

Composition:
Boris Bezemer

Performance:
Ensemble Resilience
Natalie Kulina (violin)
Marco Danesi (bass clarinet) 
Tomek Szcsepaniak (percussion)
Paolo Gorini (piano, seaboard) @paolo-gorini

Live at:
Club Fluxus, TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht, The Netherlands

More info:
www.borisbezemer.nl/index/under-water

Underwater

Aco es stranu est écrite en langue de pioche, parle de l'héritage des corps assignés femmes à la naissance et de comment les gestes subis par les aîné·es coulent dans le corps et l'esprit de leur descendance.
texte et composition: Elisa Baron
arrangement: Elisa Baron
mastering: Lucas Flosse
visuel: Mathilde Robert

Aco es stranu

voice / poetry Annie Abrahams
music Alix Desaubliaux
https://bram.org/pwem/

HOMMELES

Where to find inner stillness? How to perform not for human beings, but for spaces? Where do the sounds of celebration and grief intersect? These are some of the topics explored in this episode, where Laraaji, a musician and laughter practitioner, and Raoni Muzho Saleh, a choreographer and performer, discuss ‘the sonic experience of life’ with moderator Radna Rumping. The result is a lively intergenerational conversation on collective sounding as a healing practice.
A transcript of the conversation and more information about this show is available here: 
https://jajajaneeneenee.com/shows/laraaji-raoni-muzo-saleh-radna-rumping-in-conversation/

Laraaji is a musician, mystic and laughter-meditation practitioner based in New York City, who plays piano, zither and mbira. His musical career includes over 50 releases: from the legendary Ambient 3: Day of Radiance (1980, a collaboration with Brian Eno) to the more recent Sun Piano and Moon Piano albums (2020, All Saints Records). Laraaji is the creator and facilitator of Laughter Meditation Workshops, sharing the ‘seriously fun’ practice of heavy laughter as a transformative and ultimately healing tool for everyone.

Raoni Muzho Saleh is a choreographer and performer based in Amsterdam. Born in Afghanistan and raised in Pakistan, his thinking and work is shaped by fugitivity as a radical movement. By dancing through the gender spectrum, Raoni has developed a unique movement practice that emphasizes “becoming other”, a continuous state of incompleteness. Through the use of materials such as textile, dough, voice, and text, Raoni invites a serious kind of play into space where all can become immersed in otherworldly stories.

This broadcast is the third of a three-part series on embodied listening and non-verbal vocal expression, curated by Radna Rumping. Previous episodes: 'Laraaji - Guided Laughter Release' (19 september) and ‘Raoni Muzho Saleh - Gathering in a Polyphonic MOOOOAAAAAAANN Safeguards Solidarity’ (26 September). All episodes stay available through our archive.

Two Sides of Laraaji

Laraaji, Raoni Muzho Saleh & Radna Rumping in conversation

i experimented with OpenAI's Text-To-Speech-Playground. i entered long strings of vowels (aaaaaaaa..., eeeeee..., etc). these are some results. everything is completely without effects and no additional editing. it sounds really crazy and sometimes completely unexpected. the track names reflect the prompt (the original prompt was just much longer).

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Original version of the song before the upbeat Jemski Chan DUBlab remix. 

Grandmothers Footsteps

Sound extract of Nice Girls? A Performance by Helen Varley Jamieson and Annie Abrahams, 19/09 2024 at the Internationales Frauen* Theaterfestival in Frankfurt and online on the Upstage platform.
“Nice Girls?” is a conversation between poetry and live text animation that problematises social expectations and behavioural concepts. As women we are trained to be nice, to pacify, to soothe; and to avoid conflict, even when this may not be a path to resolving it. In this performance we will search for peace within conflict and poetry within paradoxes. The performance ended with a participative Not so nice girls nice girl choir.
Text Annie Abrahams. Visuals  by Helen Varley Jamieson.

Nice Girls?-extract

Sondheimthememory



Alx P.op and Sandrine Deumier 2016

Alx P.op (electronic music composer) : www.alx-pop.blogspot.com / Sandrine Deumier (digital poetry) : www.sandrinedeumier.com


Soft Butterfly - Alx P.op + Sandrine Deumier

Son pour Queeriser le Dommage : Opération n : Mise au point.
A l'occasion du Laboratoire de Traverse 11 "Ecrans : Surfaces de projection et projection de soi. Qu'est-ce que l'écran fait de nous?" 
Montage : Annie Abrahams
Son : Jan de Weille
Rires : Alix Desaubliaux, Carin Klonowski, Gwendoline Samidoust, Alice Lenay, Annie Abrahams
Voix : Pascale Barret, Olivier Bienz, Nicolas Frespech, Valentin Godard, Alix Desaubliaux et Annie Abrahams

Opération n : Mise au point. - session Queering Dommage

Annie Abrahams